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Job Description
Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge network security systems?

Join our world-class Enterprise Security Team

Our Team builds and delivers zero trust security solutions for enterprise customers. Our mission is to provide Segmentation and threat protection solutions to enterprises. Powered by Akamai's global Intelligent Edge Platform, Enterprise Threat Protector proactively identifies, blocks, and mitigates targeted threats. It mitigates ransomware, phishing, DNS data exfiltration and advanced zero-day attacks and helps segment the network.

Partner with the best

As a Software Engineer, you'll help to build Akamai's Zero
Trust platform into a worldwide leader. You'll be crucial to the development of best-in-class security features. Leveraging your knowledge in Networking/multi-cloud/distributed environments, you'll make a global impact on Enterprises/applications, users and their workloads.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Building & enhance products/services for Akamai Edge and VM based products that gets deployed within Enterprise perimeter
Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, implementing proof of concepts, analyzing systems, and proposing solutions
Collaborating with software engineering teams in an Agile environment on code review, design process and product development
Working closely with product management to enhance new releases
Coordinating deployment strategy and system changes, participating in timeline planning and release schedules
Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have experience in software development and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or it's equivalent
Have experience in coding with C on Linux
Have knowledge about Golang & Python
Have basic knowledge on computer networks including TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS
Be comfortable with working in a Linux/Unix environment
Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

Your health
Your finances
Your family
Your time at work
Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.